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New Political Religions, Or an Analysis of Modern Terrorism

Author : Barry Cooper
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826216212
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book New Political Religions, Or an Analysis of Modern Terrorism written by Barry Cooper and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2005-08 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While terrorism has been used throughout the ages as a weapon in political struggles, there is an essential difference between groups who use these tactics for more or less rational political goals and those seeking more apocalyptic ends. Cooper argues that today's terrorists have a spiritual perversity that causes them to place greater significance on killing than on exploiting political grievances. He supports his assertion with an analysis of two groups that share the characteristics of a pneumopathological consciousness - Anum Shinrikyo, the terrorist organization that poisoned thousands of Tokyo subway riders in 1995, and Al-Qaeda, the group behind the infamous 9/11 killings.

Religion and Political Violence

Author : Jennifer L. Jefferis
Publisher : Taylor & Francis US
ISBN 13 : 9780415664554
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (645 download)

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Download or read book Religion and Political Violence written by Jennifer L. Jefferis and published by Taylor & Francis US. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uses the theory of social movements and first-hand interviews to create a new analysis of religiously motivated political violence in the modern world. Examining the movement to restore Sharia law to a dominant place in the Egyptian government, the movement to make abortion illegal in the United States, and the religious effort to secure territory in Israel, the author contends that religion becomes violent not because of ideology or political context alone, but because of the constantly evolving relationship between them. The ebb and flow of opportunities for political access ensures that secularization and religion, although polar opposites, depend on each other to define themselves. As a result, while their respective degrees of influence will inevitably undulate over time, both will remain a part of the political process for some time. Thus, a full understanding of both is critical to a meaningful understanding of the political process. Much work has been done to understand secular social movements as part of the political process, and consequentially researchers now know a great deal about the motivations, resources and timing of secular social movements. Considerably less research has been done in the field of religious social movements and this book fills that gap in the literature. This book will be of great interest to students of political violence, religion, sociology, and Politics and International Relations in general. Jennifer Jefferis is Assistant Professor in the Department of Government, Regent University, USA, and has a PhD in Political Science from Boston University.

Terrorism

Author : S. K. Desai
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788178849799
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (497 download)

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Download or read book Terrorism written by S. K. Desai and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Boundaries of Anabaptism

Author : Anselm Schubert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Boundaries of Anabaptism written by Anselm Schubert and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Oxford Handbook of the History of Terrorism

Author : Carola Dietze
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019985856X
Total Pages : 777 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the History of Terrorism written by Carola Dietze and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 777 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Oxford Handbook of the History of Terrorism presents a re-evaluation of the major narratives in the history of terrorism, exploring the emergence and the use of terrorism in world history from antiquity up to the twenty-first century. The volume presents terrorism as a historically specific form of political violence that was generated by modern Western culture and then transported around the globe, where it interacted with and was transformed in accordance with local conditions. It offers cogent arguments and well-documented case studies that support a reading of terrorism as a modern phenomenon, as well as sustained analyses of the challenges involved in the application of the theories and practices of modernity and terrorism to non-Western parts of the world, both for historical actors and academic commentators. The volume presents an overview of terrorism's antecedents in the pre-modern world, analyzes the emergence of terrorism in the West, and presents a series of case studies from non-Western parts of the world that together constitute terrorism's global reception history. Essays cover a broad range of topics from tyrannicide in ancient Greek political culture, the radical resistance movement against Roman rule in Judea, the invention of terrorism in Europe, Russia, and the United States, anarchist networks in France, Argentina, and China, imperial terror in Colonial Kenya, anti-colonial violence in India, Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, and the German Autumn, to right-wing, religious and eco-terrorism, as well as terrorism's entanglements with science, technology, media, literature and art. Keywords: terrorism studies, terrorism, history of terrorism, history of violence, radicalism, global history, transnational history, international history, modernity, modernization, modernism"--

Lincoln and the Politics of Christian Love

Author : Grant N. Havers
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 0826272061
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book Lincoln and the Politics of Christian Love written by Grant N. Havers and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2009-11-13 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America has seen faith-based initiatives and “the audacity of hope” in twenty-first-century politics, but few participants in our political scene have invoked the other Christian virtue of charity as a guiding principle. Abraham Lincoln extolled the merit of “loving thy neighbor as thyself,” especially as a critique of the hypocrisy of slavery, but a discussion of Christian love is noticeably absent from today’s debates about religion and democracy. In this provocative book, Grant Havers argues that charity is a central tenet of what Lincoln once called America’s “political religion.” He explores the implications of making Christian love the highest moral standard for American democracy, showing how Lincoln’s legacy demands that a true democracy be charitable toward all—and that only a people who lived according to such ideals could succeed in building democracy as Lincoln understood it. Havers argues that it is simplistic to conflate Lincoln’s invocation of “with charity for all” with his abiding support for the ideal of human equality. The ethic of charity in his view also brought a uniquely Christian realism to the universalism of democracy. He also describes how, since World War I, intellectuals and political leaders have denied that there exists a necessary relation between democracy and Christian love, proposing that democracy is sufficiently ethical without reliance on a specific religious tradition. Today’s neoconservatives and liberals instead posit a universal yearning for democracy that requires no foundation in the ethic of charity. Havers shows that this democratic universalism, espoused by those who believe a “chosen people” should uphold the natural rights of humanity, is alien to the sober thought of both the founders and Lincoln. This carefully argued work defends Lincoln’s understanding of charity as essential to democracy while emphasizing the difficulty of fusing this ethic with the desire to spread democracy to people who do not share America’s Christian heritage. In considering the prospect of America’s leaders rediscovering a moral foreign policy based on charity rather than the costly idolization of democracy, Lincoln and the Politics of Christian Love makes a timely contribution to the wider debate over both the meaning of religion in American politics and the mission of America in the world—and opens a new window on Lincoln’s lasting legacy.

Faith in Democracy? Religion and Politics in Canada

Author : Boris DeWiel
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443804290
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Faith in Democracy? Religion and Politics in Canada written by Boris DeWiel and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-01-14 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays questions the capacity of Canadian democracy to promote religious pluralism and recognize disparate faith groups as legitimate players on the political stage. These are more than rhetorical questions, as issues and public policies in contemporary Canada reflect an increasing concern that religion and religious belief ought not to intrude in political debate and matters of governance. Despite playing an active role in Canadian politics in the past, religious faith now risks relegation to the private sector. Efforts to push religious belief outside the public square set a dangerous precedent, provide rationale for further exclusion rather than inclusion, and logically culminate in monism rather than pluralism. Faith in Democracy focuses on contemporary challenges to religious pluralism in Canada with attention to the changing religious landscape throughout the country. These challenges are both old and new. They include such tasks as reconciling universal and particular perspectives of liberalism in law and recognizing the limits of secularism as an emergent dominant faith. How Canada responds to these challenges will not only influence public policy, but also test its commitment to democracy.

Sacred Violence

Author : D. Jones
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137328061
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Sacred Violence written by D. Jones and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-08-05 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sacred Violence and Religious Violence examines the place that ideology or political religion plays in legitimizing violence to bring about a purer world. In particular, the book examines Islamism and the western secular, liberal democratic responses to it.

Homeland Security

Author : Michael C. LeMay
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Homeland Security written by Michael C. LeMay and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-06-21 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive summary of the creation of the Department of Homeland Security and efforts to protect the United States from international terrorism. Homeland Security: A Reference Handbook covers the precursor events and laws from 1965 to 2000 that set the stage for the 2002 law that established the Department of Homeland Security. It identifies and discusses a dozen problems associated with homeland security policy objectively, allowing readers to come to their own conclusions. Additionally, it addresses all of the major units and agencies within the department. Comprehensive in scope and accessible in style, it discusses 46 organizations and profiles 50 actors. Unlike many books on the topic, it provides excerpts and summaries of data, presented in figures and tables and as documents from court decisions, presidential actions, and key laws to implement homeland security policy. It also annotates key secondary sources on the topic, including books, scholarly journals, films, and videos to guide the reader to further research on the subject.

Political and Cultural Representations of Muslims

Author : Christopher Flood
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004231021
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Political and Cultural Representations of Muslims written by Christopher Flood and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-07-19 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time of tension between some Muslim and non-Muslim countries, accompanied by frictions between Muslim and non-Muslim majorities or minorities within states, this collection centres on the often distorted perceptions underlying public debates over collective identities and cultures.

Revolutions

Author : Paul Caringella
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443846767
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Revolutions written by Paul Caringella and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2013-02-21 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revolutions: Finished and Unfinished, From Primal to Final is an important philosophical contribution to the study of revolution. It not only makes new contributions to the study of particular revolutions, but to developing a philosophy of revolution itself. Many of the contributors have been inspired by the philosophical approaches of Eric Voegelin or Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, and the tension between these two social philosophies adds to the philosophical uniqueness and richness of the work.

Religion and Violence

Author : Dominic Arcamone
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498206956
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (982 download)

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Download or read book Religion and Violence written by Dominic Arcamone and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2015-08-17 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of Religion and Violence is to engage dialectically key symbols of religiously motivated violence through the insights of Bernard Lonergan. Sociologists and psychologists argue the link between religion and violence. Religion is viewed more as part of the problem and not part of the solution to violence. Bernard Lonergan's insights have helped the author arrive at a number of conclusions regarding the link between religion and violence. He argues that there is a difference between distorted religion and genuine religion, between authenticity and inauthenticity of the subject. Distorted religion has the capacity to shape traditions in ways that justify violence, while genuine religion heals persons, helps them make different moral decisions when confronted with situations of conflict, and aims to explore new ways of understanding themselves as shaping history toward progress. Further, Religion and Violence, while arguing from within the Catholic Christian tradition, nevertheless seeks to provide a number of categories that will speak to people from other cultural traditions. Since many of the examples of religious violence cited by commentators come out of the Islamic tradition, the author has evidenced and explored more authentic aspects of the Islamic tradition that would help provide a solution to violence.

Religious Ideology and the Roots of the Global Jihad

Author : J. Turner
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137409576
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book Religious Ideology and the Roots of the Global Jihad written by J. Turner and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The events of 9/11 prompted questions as to the origins, nature and purpose of international jihadist organisations. In particular, why had they chosen to target the US and the West in general? Turner's book provides a unique, holistic insight into these debates, taking into account historical perceptions and ideology as key factors.

ThirdWay

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book ThirdWay written by and published by . This book was released on 2005-09 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monthly current affairs magazine from a Christian perspective with a focus on politics, society, economics and culture.

Philosophy, Literature, and Politics

Author : Ellis Sandoz
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 0826264786
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy, Literature, and Politics written by Ellis Sandoz and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Festschrift honoring Ellis Sandoz, director of the Eric Voegelin Institute for American Renaissance Studies and editor of Collected Works of Eric Voegelin. Essays explore philosophy, literature, and politics, and focus on Xenophon, Natsume, Freud, Robert Penn Warren, and George Santayana"--Provided by publisher.

Terrorism

Author : J. Angelo Corlett
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9781402016943
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (169 download)

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Download or read book Terrorism written by J. Angelo Corlett and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2003-10-31 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a unique book on terrorism that openly, rationally and passionately delves into what underlies terrorism, what in some cases justifies it on ethical grounds, and how terrorism might be dealt with successfully. Rather than assuming from the start a particular point of view about terrorism, this book uniquely engages the reader in a series of critical discussions that unveil the ethical problems underlying terrorism. A must-read for everyone interested in understanding the depths of terrorism.

Konfliktfeld Islam in Europa

Author : Monika Wohlrab-Sahr
Publisher : Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Konfliktfeld Islam in Europa written by Monika Wohlrab-Sahr and published by Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft. This book was released on 2007 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Europa ist im Zuge der Auseinandersetzung um Migration ein neues Konfliktfeld entstanden, in dem der Islam als Bezugspunkt eine immer wichtigere Rolle spielt. Zugleich sind Konflikte vor Ort zunehmend in einen Welthorizont eingebunden. Der vorliegende Band leuchtet diese veranderte Konstellation uber Landerstudien und systematische Perspektiven aus. Aktuelle Auseinandersetzungen kommen ebenso in den Blick wie deren gesellschaftliche und historische Kontexte.Mit Beitragen von: Levent Tezcan, Monika Wohlrab-Sahr, Shmuel N. Eisenstadt, Armando Salvatore, Reinhard Schulze, Werner Schiffauer, Steffen Kuhnel, Jurgen Leibold, Kornelia Sammet, Jorg Huttermann, Ruud Peters, Sipco Vellenga, Karen Schonwalder, Christian Moe, Ozkan Ezli, Arnd-Michael Nohl, Mustafa Sen, Matthias Koenig, Claire de Galembert, Frank Kalter und Cornelia Kristen.